East Flanders helps farmers make barns and farm infrastructure safer against fire
Updated 29 June 2026, 12:00 UTC | Ghent: The Province of East Flanders is helping farmers make barns and farm infrastructure safer against fire, VRT NWS reported on 29 June.
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- VRT NWS reported on 29 June that Oost-Vlaanderen is helping farmers make barns and infrastructure fire-safe.
- Prevent Agri listed a 12 June notice on cooperation with the province for fire-safe agricultural and horticultural businesses.
- The province says its Landbouwloket offers advice, information and support to land and horticulture businesses.
- Prevent Agri says it provides free, personal farm safety audits and practical advice for green-sector businesses.
The subject is a Flemish provincial farm-safety initiative in . The named actors are the , its Landbouwloket, Prevent Agri and farmers operating agricultural or horticultural sites with barns, machinery rooms, storage spaces and other infrastructure.
Background
Prevent Agri and VILT have long described safety on farms as a structural issue in Flanders, with practical risks linked to machinery, storage, electrical installations and the daily pressure of farm work. VILT reported in 2016 that the sector lacked complete accident statistics because registration duties mainly cover employees, not all family workers or business operators.
What to do
Farmers in Oost-Vlaanderen should check the provincial Landbouwloket and Prevent Agri channels for audit requests, advice and any conditions attached to support for making stallen infrastructuur brandveilig.
Impact
Regional — The impact is local and provincial. Farmers in Oost-Vlaanderen are the immediate target group, while municipalities that work with the provincial Landbouwloket can use the initiative as part of wider farm-support services.
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What the main actors are doing
Reported positions, summarised — not direct quotationsProvince of East Flanders and Prevent Agri
The public-safety case is preventive: tailored advice and practical farm audits help farmers identify fire risks before an incident destroys buildings, machinery or livestock. This view treats fire safety as part of ordinary farm resilience rather than only an emergency-service issue.
Farmers and horticultural operators facing cost pressure
The practical constraint is time and money. VILT has previously reported that safety measures can be hard to prioritise because the avoided accident does not appear in farm accounts. For small farms, advice is useful only if recommended measures are realistic and financially manageable.
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